4th grade - The word of the day was Fertile. Fertile means able to reproduce children, seeds, or fruits; highly productive and sounds like Turtle. The pilgrim of the day was George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver overcame discrimination to become a leading botanist. When southern farmers were losing their cotton crops, George Washington Carver was able to persuade them that there was a market for peanuts by inventing for 300 uses for that product. The puzzle of the day was a Quotation Quizzler. Quotation Quizzlers take a famous quote and put it into a puzzle something like a crossword puzzle. For more puzzles to do at home, go to http://www.quotepuzzles.com/.
Students then worked on a project from their 4th grade Every Day Math curriculum. They put together a Cutaway Globe that will be able to help them with latitude and longitude. We then discussed how Pacific Ocean currents affect cities in Japan and eastern Asia as well as the west coast of North America.
5th grade - The word of the day was Prevail. Prevail means to be victorious; to persuade and sounds like Sail. The inventor of the day was Ruth Wakefield. While baking cookies one day, Ruth discovered she had run out of baking chocolate. Her friend, Andrew Nestle, had given her a semi-sweet chocolate bar which she broke up and put into the cookie batter. She thought it would melt and she would get her chocolate cookies. To her surprise, the chocolate did not melt and now we have chocolate chip cookies. Her recipe is on the back of every package of Nestle's Toll House chocolate chips. The cookies were named after the inn she and her husband ran. The puzzle of the day was a Quotation Quizzler. Students then spent some time reflecting and writing about what was important to them. We then worked on the SOS project. Students were to reflect on how the ocean currents of the Pacific Ocean affect eastern Asia and the west coast of North America. Students left early to enjoy the magician assembly for all of their work on the Sooner fundraiser.
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